Site Search now hosted by Google

March 17, 2010

We have used the Google Mini search appliance for the last 4 years, and while we have been generally pleased, we outgrow out document limit of 100,000 about a year ago. When the document limit filled up new documents were getting indexed. We were planning to upgrade it in FY20100, however, I found out Google [...]

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Ingeniux Upgraded to Version 6 SR6

March 3, 2010

Today I attended a webinar held by the Ingeniux Corporation, where the presented the latest version of their software dubbed “SR6.” The highlights of the new feature list are 1) full Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 compatibility and 2) dramatically increased page rendering times. Here are the notes from them: Ingeniux CMS 6.0 SR6 [...]

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Form Validation with jQuery

March 1, 2010

Because of jQuery’s powerful selector, it’s very easy to write form validation scripts for many different scenarios. We’ll begin by defining a class to add to form elements that can’t be left blank (including check boxes and radio buttons). I’ll use the class “notBlank” in this example. Additionally, we can define other classes such as [...]

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jQuery and Mobile Web Development

February 25, 2010

We use jQuery in most of our web applications for form validation, showing/hiding content, and the like. With the release of our new mobile site, we were faced with a set of challenges specific to mobile applications, and we used jQuery to address a number of them. Heavy Content When developing for the the limited bandwidth [...]

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Sharepoint 2010 Sneakpeek

February 23, 2010

Mark Dunkel from Microsoft came to Washington & Lee University to give some of the CICV (Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia) schools a demo of Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 from a Higher Ed perspective. The timeline for release is June of 2010 for general availability. SP 2010 will focus much more on hosted solutions, and [...]

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New Maroons Online Mockup

February 18, 2010

We are hard at work coming up with great new ideas for Maroons Online. Our concept is to make user profiles the centerpiece, and allow users to search and view other Alumni’s profiles. We are also planning to use Facebook Connect for login, so users can post information from Maroons Online back to Facebook. Connections [...]

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New Mobile Site Launched!

February 17, 2010

We officially launched the new mobile website that is optimized for webkit based mobile devices like the iPhone/iPod Touch, Android and Palm Pre/Pixi. Access the site by going to:  i.roanoke.edu New City from Blacksburg, Virginia designed the site and my team of crack student programmers hooked up the backend with some coldfusion and javascript code. [...]

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Social Media on a College or University Home Page?

February 16, 2010

I have been thinking about when it will be time to put social media on the home page for Roanoke College. This is a big change for me, since for a long time it was “if,” now it is “when.” I have followed University of Richmond’s and Washington & Lee’s use of Twitter and Facebook [...]

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2010 Mobile Strategy

February 15, 2010

2010 is going to be a big year for the Roanoke College mobile strategy. Right now we have four initiatives for the year. #1 – New iPhone/Android Home Page Now in “preview” at i.roanoke.edu, our new home page was designed by New City in Blacksburg, Va, who also designed our home page and sports page. [...]

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Active Campus Portal – Screenshots

October 30, 2009

Here is a screenshot of the upcoming replacement for MyRC with the Roanoke College branding in place. The new portal will be released on January 5, 20105. Features include: Integrated view of Outlook calendar and class schedule Blackboard Webadvisor My ToDo list Weather Password Change Daily Announcements Team Sites College News, Sports News & Dining [...]

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